OVERVIEW
Qin Dynasty
- Great Wall of China
- Qin Shihuangdi
--> recentralization of feudal states
--> attempted control of thought
- patriarchal
- Legalism
- fell due to peasant revolt
Han Dynasty
- Wu Ti
--> warrior emperor
--> defeats Huns
--> expands to central Asia
- Silk Road - Buddhism
- civil service exams
- paper, sundials, calendars
Interaction between humans and the environment - demography and disease, migration, patterns of settlement, technology
Silk Road - able to pass through Gobi Desert due to camels - overcome environment
Han - paper, sundials, calendars - learning to control their environment through prediction of its behavior
Development and Interaction of Cultures – Religions, Belief systems, Science and technology, The arts and architecture
Qin Legalism - sect of Confucianism that believed in the innate evil of human beings and promoted a centralized, heavy-handed government
first emperor Qin Shihuangdi - attempted to control thought; burned books he believed contained dissent from the empires (and the emperor's) values
complete the Great Wall of China
Han Confucianism
Silk Road - Han - spread of culture and Buddhist ideas
Han paper - record-keeping for later civilizations
State-building, Expansion, and Conflict – Political structures and forms of governance, Empires, Nations and nationalism, Revolts and revolutions, Regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations
Qin Legalism - strong, harsh central government - reunites former Zhou feudal states
repressive nature leads to peasant revolt and ultimately the fall of the Qin
Han Warrior Emperor Wu Ti defeats the Huns, expanding China into central Asia
Confucian civil service exams - talent gives you high status, not birth - highly skilled bureaucracy
Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems – Agricultural and pastoral production, Trade and commerce, Labor systems, Industrialization, Capitalism and socialism
Qin - peasants = labor, which led to unrest and revolt
Han - Silk Road - global trade network - spread of culture and ideas
Development and Transformation of Social Structures – Gender roles and relations, Family and kinship, Racial and ethnic constructions, Social and economic classes
Qin - patriarchal; huge, repressed lower class of peasant laborers
Han - civil service exams meant more chance of rising to high status, though typically only the wealthy could afford to prepare for the exams
OVERVIEW
Qin Dynasty
- Great Wall of China
- Qin Shihuangdi
--> recentralization of feudal states
--> attempted control of thought
- patriarchal
- Legalism
- fell due to peasant revolt
Han Dynasty
- Wu Ti
--> warrior emperor
--> defeats Huns
--> expands to central Asia
- Silk Road - Buddhism
- civil service exams
- paper, sundials, calendars
Interaction between humans and the environment - demography and disease, migration, patterns of settlement, technology
Silk Road - able to pass through Gobi Desert due to camels - overcome environment
Han - paper, sundials, calendars - learning to control their environment through prediction of its behavior
Development and Interaction of Cultures – Religions, Belief systems, Science and technology, The arts and architecture
Qin Legalism - sect of Confucianism that believed in the innate evil of human beings and promoted a centralized, heavy-handed government
first emperor Qin Shihuangdi - attempted to control thought; burned books he believed contained dissent from the empires (and the emperor's) values
complete the Great Wall of China
Han Confucianism
Silk Road - Han - spread of culture and Buddhist ideas
Han paper - record-keeping for later civilizations
State-building, Expansion, and Conflict – Political structures and forms of governance, Empires, Nations and nationalism, Revolts and revolutions, Regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations
Qin Legalism - strong, harsh central government - reunites former Zhou feudal states
repressive nature leads to peasant revolt and ultimately the fall of the Qin
Han Warrior Emperor Wu Ti defeats the Huns, expanding China into central Asia
Confucian civil service exams - talent gives you high status, not birth - highly skilled bureaucracy
Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems – Agricultural and pastoral production, Trade and commerce, Labor systems, Industrialization, Capitalism and socialism
Qin - peasants = labor, which led to unrest and revolt
Han - Silk Road - global trade network - spread of culture and ideas
Development and Transformation of Social Structures – Gender roles and relations, Family and kinship, Racial and ethnic constructions, Social and economic classes
Qin - patriarchal; huge, repressed lower class of peasant laborers
Han - civil service exams meant more chance of rising to high status, though typically only the wealthy could afford to prepare for the exams